Chapter 70: A drop snake or two.

“WAIT ONE DANG minute!” Pete’s eyes flashed, a sudden, fierce light, and then suddenly, the royal moved, a blur of unexpected speed. “Used? A game?” The chap rolled to the side just as a drop snake, a dark, coiled menace, slammed onto the roof where he’d been standing. “I wasn’t trying to manipulate you, Nigel.” The bloke whirled around, his body instantly defensive, and faced the snake as the serpent made his first strike at Pete’s ...